_____Let’s look at the Darwinian theory first. It can be stated in full in a few words: nature selects from random change. That is the Darwinian theory in full. There’s nothing more one can say. When, around five years ago, I heard it for the first time, I was shocked. It is so obviously wrong that at first I thought it was a young earth creationist attempt to confuse things. Then I discovered that that was the position science really held.
_____First off, it doesn’t fit the requirements of a scientific theory. It cannot be observed, tested, or proven in any way. It is a completely philosophical position of the exact same ilk as the young earth creationist theory. Both of them are impossible to prove or disprove.
_____Then there is the situation. We have determined that there have been three major evolutionary periods in the history of the earth. The first one is called the “pre-Cambrian explosion”. Suddenly, around four hundred million years ago, there began a vast proliferation of multi-cellular life changing constantly for some fifty million years.
_____At that point the fossil record began showing repetition, no more change, until the beginning of the second period, called the “Permian die-off”, when something terrible happened around 260 million years ago, and over a period of maybe forty million years almost all of those species disappeared from the fossil record and vast numbers of new species appeared for the first time.
_____Once again the fossil record settled down, no change to speak of until 65 million years ago, at what we call “the K/T boundary crisis”, when it is thought an asteroid crashed into the earth and brought about 30 million years of drastic change in the fossil record, no more dinosaurs along with a plethora of other creatures, to be replaced by other, different but related species.
_____It is impossible to fit the Darwinian theory into that situation although science has tried heroically for decades to shoehorn the situation into the theory with every imaginable twist. They refuse to accept that one cannot twist facts to fit philosophy. One must alter philosophy to fit facts.
_____Evolution must be accepted. Those three sets of circumstantial evidence are sufficient evidence for science to accept evolution. The only question is drive. It’s obviously not random. There is nothing random about the three periods except their happening. The change was a reaction, not a random stroke of luck. There just can’t be that much luck in this world.
_____Evolution is obviously driven. The question is simply what drives it. Again, let’s look at the situation. What are the facts of the matter?
_____Around four billion years ago, single-celled life appeared on earth. This life did not evolve until around 400 million years ago. What changed?
_____Geology tells us that around that time, the earth became a much nicer place in which to live. It cooled down considerably and volcanic catastrophe diminished greatly. It became, for the first time, a place where multi-cellular creatures could enjoy a satisfactory life and, lo & behold, there was an explosion of multi-cellular life.
_____In about fifty million years life reached satisfaction within their new environment, and evolution stopped. Life was happy, and no longer needed to change. This satisfaction lasted until that terrible moment some 260 million years ago when something yet undiscovered drastically altered the environment, causing dissatisfaction for all but a few species. This dissatisfaction caused them to once again evolve, in order to return to satisfaction.
_____Another stint of evolution, this one slightly shorter, and then life, albeit in a new iteration, was satisfied. Once again, life was happy and ceased to change.
_____Then, the asteroid. A repeat of the evolutionary scenario. Environmental change, dissatisfaction, evolutionary change, again shorter, maybe thirty million years, satisfaction, and the end of evolution.
_____The drive for evolution is satisfaction. When a species becomes dissatisfied with it’s environment it will evolve until it feels satisfied within that environment.
_____I heard on tv tonight that the ancient Phoenicians had a religious “requirement” that all females had to spend a night in the temple and sleep with a strange man. It got me to thinking.
_____We know that females feel their strongest sexual desires around the age of fifteen, and it is not difficult to surmise that, given the allowance of society, any female would reach out to the male that most arouses her at that time. This would result in the most genetically diverse population possible and further, I am convinced, in the strongest orgasm possible, which, I am also convinced, will develop the ablest human being.
_____The whole documentary suggested that the Phoenicians were one of the few, if not the only sane nation in the Mediterranean area. I hope I learn more.
_____I must add that if the female is allowed to select at the height of her bodies desire to become pregnant, she will automatically select the male most perfectly aligned with her bodies desire for the best child possible.
_____I just had a flash about race relations in america. I’d really like some feedback on this.
_____We owe the brown people of america reparations for the struggles they have gone through in the last four hundred years and are still going through today. When we pay them for all their suffering we will have a fully integrated society.
_____We need to give the browner of us education as though they were very wealthy, give them a reduction in cost everywhere, and do it for three generations. It will take us two generations to get over the anger at treating them as though they were better than us, but during the third generation we will see that they are as good as us, and they will gratefully accept brotherhood.
—–I am an old earth creationist. I believe that god created the universe and biological life in god’s image some 14 billion years ago and that god designed the universe and biological life to evolve. I believe that whenever biological life finds itself in an environment in which it can exist it will leave stasis and evolve until it is satisfied with it’s existence in that environment, then re-enter stasis. When the environment changes so that life is no longer satisfied within it life will again leave stasis and once again evolve until it is satisfied with it’s existence in it’s new environment, at which time it will once again enter stasis.
_____I just watched a documentary about the world trade center and high-rise building strength. When it came on I was glad because I had heard of someone ranting awhile ago about a third world trade center building that had not suffered a direct hit collapsing, and, since I had never heard that before, I felt sure that this show would answer my question. The man held that it was “planned to collapse” as part of a conspiracy.
_____As they got into it, it was obvious to me that there had not been a third building collapse. They were out to discover if the collapse was caused by a lack of structural integrity, a question much better answered by a building collapsing without a direct hit. They spent about 15 minutes talking about investigating the rubble, then another 15 talking about studies, simulations and tests, then went off to a building under construction in Shanghi being built well. They never mentioned a third building. At that point I couldn’t help but conclude that there was no other collapse.
_____Then they blew my mind. They started talking about how the new number 7 world trade center, being built where the third building collapsed, was much safer. One has to wonder about the conspiracy.
_____From the farm I found myself in an old and tattered mansion on 24th street in N.E. Washington D.C. For the most part this was not a good time in my life. We were sharing the house with a friend of my mother’s, her three children, and her husband who had lost his legs just above the knee and traveled on a little trolley powered by his huge arms. The two boys were nasty, and my mother had made it clear that she wouldn’t intervene.
_____An example: At my fifth birthday party, I had to invite them since their mom was the renter and we were there by her good graces. I was given a two-gun cowboy outfit that I fell in love with immediately. It was black leather with shiny sequins all over it and had two cap pistols with ivory like grips. The littlest kid wanted to wear them and when I said no my mother said he was a guest and I had to let him wear them.
_____He put them on, laughed an evil laugh, and ran from the room. I ran after him. He went down the stairs, outside to the street and ripped them off, throwing them down the sewer. I was heartbroken and told my mother. She said it was my own fault for letting him wear them.
_____Another example: The older boy, with some friends, grabbed me in the hallway, stripped my clothes off, and threw me naked into a room where his sister was entertaining some of her girlfriends. I ran out and up the stairs in humiliated panic, only to be stopped by the husband midway as he was bumping down. He held me in an iron grip and lectured me about forcing my nakedness on the poor girls, all in full sight of the girls, giggling in the hallway.
_____Life wasn’t all bad. I met my first friend while living there, Floyd. He lived across the street and had three sisters, one about ten, one maybe seven, and one about a year younger than us. Floyd and I did everything together every day. We were inseparable.
_____We wanted to plant a garden. They said we could get seeds at the hardware store on Rhode Island Avenue. We didn’t know what a store was, but we knew where Rhode Island Avenue was, so off we went.
_____We walked along the street. There was nothing but doors and windows. Suddenly we came to a place with an opening between the windows, and lo and behold, just inside there was a rack taller than us and wider than we could see at once, covered with packets of seeds. This was it! We spent a long time talking and picking from the pictures until we felt we had as many as we wanted. Then we turned around and headed home, thrilled with our find and ready to plant our garden.
_____Suddenly, someone yelled out and we were grabbed from behind. In the end, the policeman realized we were not thieves and let us go, but we planted no garden.
_____Floyd’s three sisters hung out with us a lot. They were pleasant and friendly, which, in retrospect, is surprising. Their father was a real piece of work. He often had sex with one or the other of the older girls and talked a lot about “getting the young one’s cherry” when she was older. When he talked about it, the four children all laughed up their sleeves because they were on welfare, and their caseworker had had sex with all three of them.
_____One morning I came outside and Floyd wasn’t around. I went to their house and it was empty. I never saw Floyd again.
Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going? How can we get there? These questions have tormented humanity for at least 7000 years. Do I have the answers? Yes I do.
When I was eleven, in 1950, blissfully unaware that any of those questions existed, I started on a small quest. My sixth grade teacher, Mrs. Kaukenon, told us, rather wistfully, that evolution existed, but that we knew precious little or nothing more than that.
I loved Mrs. Kaukenon, and I resolved to learn all I could about evolution. Unfortunately, (or probably fortunately,) that was the last of my academic education for all practical purposes, and I was forced to study evolution on my own, through newspapers, magazines, and television. It took me, as I lived my varied and eventful life, thirty years.
At that I was really lucky. Those were the years of the Leakey discoveries, and the public was ravenous for information on evolution. In 1980, when I finally reached a full understanding of evolution, I figured everyone else, including Mrs. Kaukenon, had also reached a full understanding of evolution, so I felt no necessity to reiterate my findings. When someone would say “evolution,” I would nod Knowingly and say “evolution,” and we would continue our conversation. I laughed along with them when they mentioned young earth creationists, assuming they knew as I did that evolution explained exactly what happened 7000 years ago, and they were just being ridiculous.
Around ten years before I completed my study of evolution, I began also to study my psyche. This study I also completed around 1980, and found I had developed an understanding of the mind and all of its ramifications. Here I felt that I was in the forefront, but knew of no way I could put my knowledge to work.
Because I enjoyed thinking and reading I continued to refine my understanding of the mind and its ramifications as I witnessed the birth and growth of my two youngest children. My wife, Susan Remmers, an exemplary natural mother, enabled me to understand naturally raised children, which allowed me to fully understand the mind.
I did all of this without recording any of it. I left it all in a jumble in my mind until around 1993, when I realized that I was living a different life from everyone else, and I needed to write down what I was living. The result was my essay on the structure of human beings. I showed it to some friends, all thoughtful but none degreed, and to two doctors. No one responded, and I felt at a loss, but I continued to think.
One day my doctor, with whom I wished to be friends, gave me a young earth creationist tract. I gladly took it home to read, and when I reached the forth page, the tract posited what I thought to be the most ridiculous concept of evolution ever presented. I immediately re-read the tract to see why they would present something so far from evolution as to be laughable, and when I couldn’t, I went to my encyclopedia. It agreed with the tract. Science had decided that evolution was the result of random change and natural selection.
I was flabbergasted. I realized that young earth creationists were not ridiculous, but had simply, along with everyone else, misunderstood what had really happened. I began to, as I continued to live my varied life, put my thoughts in order. This book is the result of that.
_____I will be writing on my web page as soon as i can get it together. Along with the lingering fear that my work will be in vain, there’s the lack of paragraphing indents and the general lack of control for the user. I want it to show the most recent followed by a random selection. No chance. I’d accept most recent followed by catagories earliest to latest, but no chance there either.
_____And it would be nice if i could find a way to talk to someone.
Computers hate me. What did I do to deserve that?